... sequence-oriented approach (McDonald,20 06; Nomoto, 2007; Clarke and Lapata, 20 06; Hori and Furui, 2003). It treats a sentence as a se-quence of words and structural information, suchas a syntactic or ... itsposition within its sentence. In Japanese, the main subject of a sentenceusually appears at the beginning of the sentence(BOS) and the main verb phrase almost alwaysappears at the end of ... Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP of the AFNLP, pages 8 26 833,Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009.c2009 ACL and AFNLP A Syntax-Free Approach to Japanese Sentence...